Tank brigade 18

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Panzerbrigade 18
"Holstein"
- PzBrig 18 -
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Association badge tank brigade 18

Association badge
active March 16, 1959 to 
Dec. 31, 2008
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg army
Type Tank brigade
last staff seat Boostedt

The armored brigade 18 " Holstein " , based of the bar recently in Boostedt was a brigade of the German Army , which in 2008 together with its former parent 14th Panzer Grenadier Division was disbanded "Hanse". Panzerbrigade 18 was the last main brigade of the former 6th Panzer Grenadier Division . The brigade was completely stationed in Schleswig-Holstein .

history

Prehistory as a combat group in the Army Structure 1

To assume the army structure 1 which was battle group B 1 1 July 1956 Location of the rod in the Hindenburg barracks in Neumünster reorganized . Combat group B 1 was part of the 1st Panzer Division . On April 1, 1958, combat group B 1 was renamed combat group B 6 and subordinated to the 6th Grenadier Division. At the same time was April 1, 1958, a "new" battle group B 1 - as a "precursor" of the later Panzergrenadierbrigade 1 with - location of the bar in Hildesheim restructured. The battalions previously subordinated to combat group B 6 remained.

Combat group B 6 was divided into the following units in April 1958 at the earliest :

In May 1958, other units of combat group B 6 moved from Hamburg to Neumünster and Boostedt.

Army structure 2

In January 1959, the headquarters company of combat group B 6 was divided. One part was supposed to form the headquarters company of the new Panzer Brigade 18, the other part was transferred to Hamburg to form the trunk of the headquarters company of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 17 . To take over Army Structure 2 , Combat Group B 6 was reclassified to Panzer Brigade 18 on March 16, 1959 . The brigade was subordinated to the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division. The brigade comprised the following troops:

  • Panzergrenadierbataillon 182 ( Bad Segeberg , formerly Grenadierbataillon 46)
  • Panzerbataillon 183 (Boostedt, formerly Panzerbataillon 13)
  • Panzerbataillon 184 (Neumünster, formerly Panzerjägerbataillon 3)
  • Panzerartilleriebataillon 185 (Boostedt)
  • Supply Battalion 186 (formation April 1, 1959, Neumünster)
  • Panzer Reconnaissance Company 180 (set up on September 16, 1958, Lingen an der Ems, relocated to Strande - Altbülk on January 7, 1959 and to Breitenburg in August 1959 , on October 1, 1961 incorporated into Panzer Reconnaissance Train 180 and reclassification to 3rd / Panzer Reconnaissance Train 180)
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 180 (established as of March 1, 1959 in Plön through divestment and reclassification of the 3rd Company of Pioneer Battalion 6)
  • Air defense battery 180 (set up on September 16, 1961 in Schleswig , relocated on January 2, 1962 to Lütjenburg , renamed on February 1, 1967 to air defense battery 61 and part of the army air defense school , but continued to be a brigade unit until 1971)
  • NBC Defense Company 180 (compiled October 1, 1967 from NBC Defense Company 6, only subordinated to April 1, 1972)
  • Headquarters company

In 1962 the first large-scale operation took place during the storm surge in northern Germany .

Army structure 3

In 1972 the supply battalion 186 was disbanded. The repair company 180 (formerly 3rd / supply battalion 186) in Boostedt and the supply company 180 (formerly 4th / supply battalion 186) in Neumünster were newly established. On October 1, 1976, the repair training company 6/6 was also subordinated. In 1977 the brigade:

  • Panzer Grenadier Battalion 182
  • Tank Battalion 183
  • Panzer Battalion 184
  • Armored Artillery Battalion 185
  • Supply Battalion 186
  • Headquarters company (Neumünster)
  • Supply company 180 (Neumünster)
  • Repair company 180 (Boostedt)
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 180 ( Lübeck )
  • Panzer Reconnaissance Train 180 (Neumünster)

Army structure 4

On April 1, 1981 the tank battalion 181 and the Jägerbataillon 67 in Breitenburg-Nordoe were reorganized. The 67th Jägerbataillon was a partially active unit that could only grow up through reservists when there was a tension. The combat companies Panzerbataillon 181 were assigned to battalions 182, 183 and 184 in peace. In 1980, the former Panzerjägerkompanie 170 was subordinated to Panzerbrigade 18 as Panzerjägerkompanie 180. In Army Structure 4, the brigade was initially also subordinate to the StDst / MKF 2/6 training company (Neumünster, Sick barracks). The tank battalion 184 moved in 1983 from Neumünster ( Scholtz barracks ) to the Rantzau barracks in Boostedt. The supply company 180 was initially in Neumünster (Rantzau barracks) but was then moved to Boostedt . Panzerbrigade 18 was given the nickname “Holstein” on April 26, 1988.

The brigade comprised around 2900 soldiers in the peace structure in the autumn of 1989 . The planned growth force in the case of a defense was around 3,300 soldiers. For nursery which was convened by reservists and the mobilization of non-active units provided. At the end of Army Structure 4 in autumn 1989, the brigade was still part of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division and was roughly divided into the following troop units :

Army structure 5 until disbandment

Memorial stone for the armored artillery battalion 185 in the " Ehrenhain der Schleswig-Holstein artillery " in Kellinghusen

In Army Structure 5 , the brigade was reclassified to a partially active mechanized brigade. For this purpose, Panzerbataillon 184 was subordinated to Panzer Battalion 183 as a non-active unit in 1992. The battalion's material was stored in the Rantzau barracks in Boostedt. Furthermore, the companies of the tank battalion 181 were dissolved by 1991. The 67th Jägerbataillon was finally disbanded on January 30, 1992, the 181th Panzer Battalion in March 1992. The Panzergrenadierbataillon 172 (formerly Panzergrenadierbrigade 17 ) moved with parts of the Panzergrenadierbataillon 171 from Lübeck to Bad Segeberg . These Panzergrenadierbataillons 171 and 172 were subordinated to the Panzer Brigade 18 as non-active units of the Panzergrenadierbataillon 182 on October 1, 1992.

Including the units disbanded by 1997, the brigade was subordinate to (temporarily) between 1990 and 1997:

  • Repair company 180
  • Armored Engineer Company 180
  • Resupply Company 180
  • Panzerjägerkompanie 180
  • Training company StDst / MKF 2/6
  • Panzer Battalion 181
  • Panzer Grenadier Battalion 182
  • Tank Battalion 183
  • Panzer Battalion 184
  • Armored Artillery Battalion 185
  • Hunter Battalion 67
  • Field Replacement Battalion 65

When the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division was dissolved in 1997, the brigade switched to the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division "Hanse" . From 1997 the brigade was under:

  • On-site first aid center
  • Field Replacement Battalion 180
  • Panzer Grenadier Battalion 182
  • Tank Battalion 183
  • Panzer Battalion 184
  • Armored Artillery Battalion 515
  • Driver training center
  • Panzer Pioneer Company 510

In 1997 forces were deployed during the Oder flood. In 2000/2001 the brigade was deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina as an SFOR unit. The brigade supported the flood operation on the Elbe in August 2002 . In 2003 the staff moved Panzerbrigade 18 from Neumünster to Boostedt. In 2003/2004 the troops were used for the ISAF mission in Afghanistan and (only in 2004) as the ORF battalion in Kosovo. In 2006 it was used again as the 10th ISAF contingent and as an ORF unit in the Balkans. In 2006, the brigade was disbanded with the decommissioning of tank battalion 183 from Boostedt and tank pioneer company 510 from Kellinghusen . The brigade and its battalions, along with its parent division, were disbanded in late 2008. The call for retirement was carried out on June 19, 2008 in the sponsor city of Neumünster. Around 700 soldiers made up the brigade's secondary command, which was finally disbanded by the end of 2008. The addition to the name “Holstein” was transferred to the reconnaissance battalion 6 in Eutin.

The brigade had no more national defense duties since 2006. Large equipment such as the Marder armored personnel carrier of Panzergrenadier Battalion 182 had already been controlled in 2006. The last remaining order until termination was the implementation of the 18th German KFOR contingent and the 9th German EUFOR contingent . Immediately before the dissolution, Panzer Brigade 18 was deployed in the Balkans in 2007/2008 (KFOR deployment, 18th contingent, EUFOR deployment, 9th contingent). Finally, the following units were also subordinate to the brigade:

  • StKp PzBrig 18.jpg Headquarters Company Panzerbrigade 18 Holstein (Boostedt)
  • Internal association badge of the 515 Panzer Artillery BattalionArmored Artillery Battalion 515 ( Kellinghusen )
  • Internal badge of the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 182Panzer Grenadier Battalion 182 ( Bad Segeberg )

Commanders

The commanders of the brigade were (rank at the time of taking over command - in the case of colonels then usually regularly promoted to brigadier general):

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment
17th Colonel Georg Maeker (Deputy Commander, mdFb) January 11, 2008 resolution
16 Brigadier General Christof Munzlinger May 1, 2005 January 10, 2008
15th Brigadier General Rainer Korff 2003 April 30, 2005
14th Colonel Bernd Kiesheyer 2000 2003
13 Colonel Christian Trull October 1, 1995 1999
12 Colonel Hans-Georg Atzinger October 1, 1992 September 30, 1995
11 Brigadier General Ehrenfried Boege August 30, 1985 September 30, 1992
10 Brigadier General Dieter Toppe April 1, 1983 August 29, 1985
9 Colonel Hartmut Schmidt-Petri September 24, 1980 March 31, 1983
8th Brigadier General Erwin Hentschel September 25, 1974 September 23, 1980
7th Brigadier General Heinz Fielitz April 1, 1970 September 24, 1974
6th Colonel Hans Mitto April 1, 1968 March 31, 1970
5 Colonel Ottomar Berke April 1, 1964 March 31, 1968
4th Colonel Hermann Miltzow July 1, 1961 March 31, 1964
3 Colonel Wilhelm Voss April 1, 1959 June 30, 1961
2 Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Wolf-Hubertus Schlabitz February 1, 1959 March 31, 1959
1 Colonel Eckart Reichel April 1, 1958 January 31, 1959

Association badge

Hand-embroidered association badge for the service suit
Internal association badge of the staff / staff company

The blazon of the association badge for the service suit of the members of the 18 Panzer Brigade read:

Gold bordered , the silver Holstein nettle leaf in red ; on this a golden shield ; in it two blue, inward-facing, red armored, striding lions .

The choice of motif of the association badge was similar to the coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein . It shows the Schleswig Lion for the Schleswig region and the nettle leaf for the second Holstein region . The lions are the main motif in Denmark's coat of arms ; the division cooperated closely with the Danish armed forces as part of the German-Danish corps LANDJUT . The association badges of the division and the subordinate brigades were identical except for the shelves . In the tradition of the Prussian color sequence , the association badge of the Panzer Brigade 18 was given a yellow border as the "third" brigade of the division.

Since the badges of the division's brigades differed only slightly, the internal badge of the staff or the staff company pars pro toto was occasionally used as the brigade's "badge" instead . In addition to the nettle leaf on a red background and yellow border, similar to the association badge, it showed a stylized battle tank from the front.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For internal association badges , a wearing license was only officially issued around the mid-1980s. They are therefore not shown. The enumerated troop units or the "successors" standing in their tradition could, however, unofficially have already worn badges similar to a coat of arms or have officially received them from the mid-1980s. Association badges for large associations were only introduced into the troops in Army Structure 2 .
  2. ↑ Shown are the internal association badges, for which a wearing permit was officially granted until around the mid-1980s. Inactive units (equipment units, partially active, cadre units) are shown in italics .
  3. ^ "First" Brigade: Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 (= white board). "Second" Brigade: Panzer Grenadier Brigade 17 (= red board). "Third" brigade: Panzerbrigade 18 (= yellow board).
  4. ↑ Possibly an M48 or a Leopard 1 from the first batch.

literature

  • Stephan-Thomas Klose: Panzer Brigade 18 Holstein . tape 1, 1959-1992 . Panzerbrigade 18 Holstein, Brigadekommando, Neumünster 1992, DNB  931 294 495 (171 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad. In: Website of the Military History Research Office . Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , Military History Research Office , accessed on February 17, 2020 (For technical reasons, direct links to individual search queries or search results are not possible. Please use the “search form” to research information on the individual departments).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-18 / Panzerbrigade 18 –Holstein–. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2004, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Section MA 3 : BArch BH 8-1 / 1. Armored Division. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2019, accessed on April 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Section MA 3 : BArch BH 9-1 / Panzergrenadierbrigade 1. In: Research application invenio . President of the Federal Archives , 2007, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d O. W. Dragoner (Ed.): The Bundeswehr 1989 . Organization and equipment of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of the Cold War. 4th edition. 2.1 - Army. Army Office. I. Corps. II Corps. III. Corps, February 2012 (167 p., Relektiven.com [PDF; 747 kB ; accessed on February 21, 2020] First edition: 2009, overview of the series at Relict.com).
  6. ^ Uwe Walter: The structures and associations of the German army . 1st edition. Part 1., I. Corps: (1956-1995). Edition AVRA, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946467-32-8 , pp. 104 (260 pp.).

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